Stamford man arrested in whiskey bottle attack

STAMFORD — Police made an arrest in a November assault Wednesday, charging a city man with fracturing another man’s skull with a Jameson whiskey bottle during an altercation.

According to the arrest warrant for Jose Torres, 27, of Relay Place, he was sitting at the bar of a Bedford Street restaurant early in the morning of Nov. 21 and began talking with a woman who said she was waiting for her boyfriend, who worked at the restaurant, to get off work. They were going to walk home together, she told Torres, according to the warrant.

Later on, after the woman and her boyfriend left, Torres caught up to them in his car and offered them a ride, the affidavit said.

As they were driving, Torres got into an argument with the woman’s boyfriend. He pulled his car over on Myrtle Avenue and told him to get out. He did, and so did Torres. The two began screaming at each other. Meanwhile the woman got out of the car and began walking, the affidavit said. Her boyfriend then began to follow her, and that was when Torres coldcocked him with a Jameson whiskey bottle, according to the affidavit. The victim’s skull was fractured, he had bleeding on the brain, and he suffered a concussion. The girlfriend told police that Torres actually struck her boyfriend twice with the bottle.

But Torres told police that when he told his passenger to get out of his car, the man began hitting him, kicked him in the face. Torres said he found the bottle on the ground and threw it at his passenger, hitting him in the back of the head, his affidavit said.

Torres was charged with second-degree assault and held in lieu of a $35,000 court appearance bond.